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For Life, Against the War (1967)

For Life, Against the War (1967)

Animation
Release Date: 1967, January 30
Directors: Richard Preston, Stan Brakhage, Michael Snow, Ken Jacobs, Lawrence Jordan, Tom Hurwitz, Jonas Mekas, Lewis Jacobs, Manfred Kirchheimer, Shirley Clarke, Robert Breer, Victor Grauer, Abbott Meader, Don Duga, Rudy Burckhardt, Joyce Wieland, Stan VanDerBeek, Ron Finne, Leo Hurwitz, Peter Gessner, Robert Fiore, Betty Ferguson, Hilary Harris, Storm De Hirsch, George Breidenbach, Peggy Lawson, Lloyd Michael Williams, Charles I. Levine, Lee Savage, Lionel Martinez, USCO, Peter Elison, John H. Hawkins, Barbara Fultz, Max Phillips, Nat Hoffman, Stephen Sellinger, Nina Feinberg, Tom Bissenger, Allen Schaff, Karl Bissenger, Jerry Wakefield, Abbe Borov, Dave Lambet, Norman Weissburg, Mark Sadan, John Wallenmeyer, A.M. Jimmenez, Allen Siegal, Maurice Amor, Fred Wellington, Bob Kinney, Henry J. Korn, Ben Van Meter
Countries: United States of America

Overview:

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in style and sensibility but united by their opposition to the Vietnam War. Part of the protest festival Week of the Angry Arts, the epic compilation film incorporated minute-long segments which were sent from many corners of the country, spliced together and projected. The original presentation of the works was more of an open forum with no curation or selection, and in 2000 Anthology Film Archives preserved a print featuring around 40 films from over 60 submissions.